Team Sleep
| Team Sleep | |
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Vocalist Chino Moreno performing live
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| Background information | |
| Origin | Sacramento, California, United States |
| Genres | |
| Years active | 2000–present |
| Labels | Maverick Records |
| Associated acts | Deftones, Crosses, Palms, Saudade, Tinfed, Hella, Death Grips, Phallucy, Them Hills, Pocket for Corduroy, Faith No More, Mr. Bungle, Fantomas, Melissa Auf der Maur, Hole, Smashing Pumpkins, Pinback, Helium, Dillinger Escape Plan, Marilyn Manson |
| Members |
Chino Moreno Todd Wilkinson DJ Crook Rick Verrett Chuck Doom Gil Sharone |
| Past members |
Zach Hill Dan Elkan Sonny Mayugba Joel Tidwell |
Team Sleep is an American experimental alternative rock/post-rock group led by singer/guitarist Chino Moreno. Moreno is better known for fronting the Sacramento-based alternative metal band Deftones. Other current members include guitarist Todd Wilkinson, turntablist DJ Crook, bass guitarist/keyboardist Rick Verrett, drummer Gil Sharone and bassist Chuck Doom.
Team Sleep's music touches on a variety of genres, including dream pop,trip hop,indie rock,post-rock,shoegaze,ambient music,psychedelic music,lo-fi music, and electronica.
Team Sleep started when Moreno and his friend Todd Wilkinson bought a cassette tape Portastudio-type four-track recorder in 1994. They continued this collaboration through the first two Deftones albums, though on a rather casual basis. Wilkinson said,
DJ Crook, a long-time friend and roommate of Deftones turntablist/keyboardist Frank Delgado, added beats and turntables to "Teenager", a song featuring glitch and trip hop influences. Originally intended as a Team Sleep song, "Teenager" was ultimately included on White Pony (2000), the third Deftones album.
Team Sleep performed a number of live shows on the West Coast of the United States in late 2001 and early 2002, with Moreno, Wilkinson, DJ Crook, Verrett (of Tinfed), Zach Hill (Hella, later of Death Grips), Dan Elkan (Pocket for Corduroy/Them Hills), Sonny Mayugba (of Phallucy, the prior band of Deftones drummer Abe Cunningham) and Joel Tidwell handling instrumentation. Their early live set included a loose cover of the Smashing Pumpkins' "The Aeroplane Flies High (Turns Left, Looks Right)", among others.
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